But Gutzman could in response say that this is what was legally enacted; those who favor other views of government should not attempt to attain their goals through misreadings and distortion of the constitutional text.
When the state is sued, liability ultimately falls upon the taxpayers, not the politicians and bureaucrats.
A solid gold standard in which every dime spent had to come from an existing stock of money would shatter the whole system. Is it any wonder that this is the last subject politicians want to talk about?
These books don't just put ideas back into circulation. They give the whole movement for liberty a massive boost, almost as if our glorious intellectual tradition has come back in full force.
Unfortunately, by buying up MBS and propping up the market the Fed will only cause more harm than it already has.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the dollar could be ready for another beating.
The result of the governments' and the unions' meddling with the height of wage rates cannot be anything else than an incessant increase in the number of unemployed.
Economics is therefore not quantitative prediction. Nor is it a game or puzzle solving. Neither of the Friedman's assumptions — the rationality of economic agents and of the simplicity of preferences — is necessary.
His likeable wife Eleanor helped spread the gospel that underpinned the New Deal: that living off the toil of others is perfectly acceptable and moral. Most Americans, not even a century removed from fighting a Civil War supposedly to end such an inhuman practice, agreed.
It seems that Poles, much like the ancient Spartans, have a choice to end up either with a shield or upon it.
